Why not use your own chess set to determine your moves? That's what I do
when playing against either a human or a program. When the opponent tells
you to move a knight to f6, make the move on your board.
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From: "dark" <d...@xgam.org>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2014 8:11 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] chess and the blind
My personal advice would be to get a tactile chess set (sometimes called a
braille chess set, even though they don't have braille on them), and start
playing live against a human.
To explain these are sets where there are holes in each square on the
board and the peaces are on pegs so you can put your mits on the board
without knocking them over, one side (usually the white, though not
always), has pins on the top to tell them apart. I'm not sure where you'd
get one from in your part of the world, they tend to be sold by the same
places who sell braille cards, dice etc.
Personally, while I understand chess notation, I find it near impossible
to hold spacial information about the board in mind without the board. I
want to put my hand on the white knight and my other finger on the square
it will move to, and then put my fingers (and to a very much lesser extent
my disfunctional eyeballs), on the surrounding squares and see if that
move will be a bad or good one.
This is why I've never got on with the various audio Chess games like
BGChess challenge, Kchess elite etc. Sinse while they have some good audio
overviews for the board, fundamentally you are still just getting the
information square by square, and I don't find myself able to old enough
spacial information about the board in mind for that sort of overview to
really help me or make it possible for me to play chess.
Of course this is me, and I will freely admit my spacial coordination is
pretty cruddy, (even in mobility I tend to substitute routes and land mark
memory instead of working out where I am spacially), you might be
different though I'm guessing by your comment you could be in a similar
position, hence my suggestion of a tactile chess set.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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